Thank you for contacting me about NHS Pay.
What the Government has tried to do with its recommendation for a 1% pay rise for NHS staff is to give NHS staff as much as it can at the present time. It is worth seeing this in the broader context where all but the lowest-paid workers across the public sector have had their pay frozen for 2021/22.
In addition, over one million NHS staff continue to benefit from multi-year pay deals agreed with trade unions, including a pay rise of over 12% for newly qualified nurses and junior doctors’ pay has been increased by 8.2%.
I know that the Independent Pay Review Bodies will make recommendations in late Spring, which will be considered by the Government. It is right that the Government does not pre-empt these recommendations.
